How far would you go for long hair?

How far would you go for long hair?

That's the question that came to my mind yesterday as I felt the side effect of one of the products I was using. The product was MN, and my head was ACHING. Let me just say, never ever again. A lot of ladies who are trying to grow out their hair will do some crazy things to try to speed up their growth process. I have heard of everything from placenta to whale sperm. Let me reiterate. Whale sperm. It just amazes me, and though I'd usually say, don't knock it till you try, there are exceptions to every rule! Lol.

I just can't see myself trying some of these things. I wish my hair grew to my butt in 2 days, but I can't see myself rubbing stuff like whale sperm in my hair. Lol. Not hating on the ladies who do it, but just, they're willing to go further than I am for the sake of their hair. I was talking to my friend Marisa about this (Yes, we're both named Maris(s)a. Lol.) and she was just baffled. Her hair type 2 and grows out pretty fast, so I'm sure she's never felt compelled to buy into the hair care extremes. However, that's not the point. She was just stunned. I also mentioned this to my boyfriend, who had similar sentiments.

I just wonder what it takes for someone to push so much for their hair to grow. I mean, your hair will grow regardless, so why do you need placenta bits to help it out? Maybe one day I'll meet one of the ladies who use these products and talk to them about it, but until then I'm thoroughly confused. On another note, I haven't written in the blog for a month because of pure laziness and writers block. I promised two blogs and they will come with time and inspiration. One blog is down, and another to go.

Greatest news EVER!

Okay guys, guess what?! My laptop is fixed! Which is great because now I can write way more blogs and add way more images that I want because my laptop has an SD card reader. I'm really happy. I'll have those two blogs I promised you guys up asap. I just have lots of projects due soon.

By the way, I saw Alice in Wonderland last night, and it was absolutely spectacular. The imagery was gorgeous, and I found it very entertaining.

Speaking of imagery, I was playing around and doing a photomanipulation and this is what I came up with.
(The image surrounded by the text. See the full version here) If you didn't know I love art and graphics, and may go to school for them one day. (That or cosmetology.) Anyway, I gotta get back to working on those projects, but keep on the look out for updates really soon!

I'm still alive!

Okay, so I definitely have been letting life get in the way of blogging lately. Sorry guys! I've been having some pretty bad writer's block lately. I wasn't sure what to write about to be honest, but I promise by the end of this week there will be two new blogs waiting for you to read. -insert applause here-

But now that I'm actually blogging, let me just say that sometimes I don't understand who designs the curriculum for my school. They should be slapped. I was taking the NJ PASS today, which is basically a standardized to assess our proficiency in math and English, and I swear a nice chunk of the stuff on there in the math section I did not learn. The things didn't even ring a bell. And I know you might be thinking, 'well she might not be good at math!' Wrong. I'm an A math student in a high honors course, so that just made me go wow. I was amazed.

I mean, how did the people in lower classes feel? Probably awful, because if I don't know stuff on a math test, people are usually doomed. (I love math.) It's stuff like that make me question my schooling sometimes, know what I mean?

I digress. I tried out pin curling for the first time Sunday night, the results on Monday were adorable. I had perfect ringlets all day. I just re-pin curled after moisturizing and sealing last night too. I got tons of compliments which made me happy. I love it when I find cute styles that are quick and easy.


Love it!

Anyway, catch you guys later,
Marissa

Review: Maybelline Eyestudio Mad for Mauve Quad

Yay! My first cosmetics review. My blog posts thus far have been primarily about hair, and so I decided I wanted to switch it up a bit. Because not only do I love hair, but I love love love make up too.

Now, I'm a girl on a budget, so Maybelline is right up my alley. For me though Maybelline can be a pretty hit or miss affair. Some eyeshadows I've purchased by them were chalky horrors with no pigmentation and others were velvety, smooth, and pigmented. Yeah, I know, it's wierd and inconsistent. I digress. Thus when choosing to buy Maybelline eyeshadow I'm a very conflicted lady. Luckily the Mad for Mauve quad from the eye studio series was anything but a disappointment.

Price: As I mentioned before, Maybelline cosmetics are very affordable. I picked up this palette for about $6 at Target when shopping for a rug to go in my room. I had heard about this new Maybelline collection and figured a quad was the more economical choice over their baked eyeshadow duos.

Packaging: The packaging isn't really anything special. The top of the case is clear so you can easily view the colors in the quad. The bottom is black. One of the shadows is almost twice the size of all the others, which would be great if it was one of my favorable colors from the palette. In general though, the eyeshadows are quite small as is the quad itself. I wish the uad was bigger to be honest, but that's just me.Here's a picture of the packaging:


Product Quality: I really love the texture and the colors of these eyshadows. They glide on smoothly and are pigmented. They are easy to blend. They're basically everything you'd want in an eyeshadow, but I do have one gripe. This may just be my brushes, but I did have some issues with fallout, it wasn't severe so I wouldn't say don't purchase the quad, just saying a fair warning. Overall I really do love these shadows though. I want to try the other quads now.
Picture of the colors:


Summing it up.
Pros
+Smooth & Blendable
+Affordable
+Pigmented

Cons
+"Ehh" packaging.
+Some fall out

The Points
Price: 5/5
Packaging: 4/5
Product Quality 15/15

Final Grade: 96

I've been down and out for awhile.

It's been awhile since an update, and I'm usually good with blogging regularly, so I do apologize. Sometimes life just hits you harder then you were ready for it, and this week was just one of those times. There was a lot of drama, pain, and I lost a friend that I'll never forget. But shit happens, so I'm just going to have to lick my wounds, right? Right. Anyway, I got my relaxer as planned on monday. I wrote a blog post, so I'll post it now.

So, relaxer day was yesterday, and if I wasn’t sure I that I wanted to self relax, I am definitely sure I want to now. I went to my usual place, with my usual lady, and she is a bit rough, but this time it was just to a whole different freaking level. (Excuse my French, I have more choice words to use, but I’ll try to control them.) She was extremely rough on my hair, combed the relaxer through (Ugh.), and when I started to feel burning she wanted to keep the relaxer in for 3 more minutes because my hair was so tangled.

Now, first of all, my hair was anything but tangled. I spent the last 3 days making sure it was as detangled as possible so that she wouldn’t have much issue and that I would lose much hair. Second of all, it’s a relaxer not a detangled, what the French toast? Now, it honestly gets worse when for the first time ever she just threw some relaxer on my previously relaxed hair. (Luckily it wasn’t on there for long and I COATED my hair with oil and conditioner before going there.) I was practically fuming. ‘

When I get my hair rinsed out finally and what not, after sitting with a deep conditioner in, I go back to the wash lady and she roughly detangles my hair. She was literally ripping the comb through my hair. I was just so taken back by this, because I’ve been going to the same place for a year and this hasn’t ever happened! It’s ridiculous. I mean, my hair felt nice and looked beautiful when they were finished, but this isn’t a sexy hair care journey, it’s a healthy hair care journey!

Now, I’m gonna try to stop fuming and be positive. First of all, I’m like a millimeter from being APL. My hair grew A LOT while in the braids, so I KNOW this will be my go to low maintenance style for the summertime. My hair definitely bounced back from my setback in November, and for that I’m so grateful. But now, I need to take my haircare almost completely into my own hands, and I am going to learn to self relax. My only concern is that I’d rather use a lye relaxer. I know they process faster so my plan is to probably do it in sections. I heard adding an oil to the relaxer can make it process slower, so that’ll also be a part of my plan. I also want to master roller sets and flexi rods.

I want to learn so much this year, and now that I know my hair will definitely be able to make it if I don’t have any setbacks, I’m gonna push for bra strap length hair. I know I can do this. I’m gonna try to incorporate a good amount of protein because my hair thrives when I use protein a lot, plus it’ll need the protein after my disaster of a relaxer.

I'll try to update more often now, I've just been having a bad time lately.

Much love,
Marissa

Happy Valentines Day!

I just woke up and I just wanted to wish everyone a happy valentines day. I made my boyfriend a red velvet cake and am going to cook him linguini chicken broccoli alfredo for dinner. What are you guys gonna do?

Anyway, I'm getting my relaxer tomorrow. My scalp is so itchy, I swear this happens every time. I'm about to get a relaxer and boom my head feels like I dipped it in a bowl of mosquitoes! Madness. But anywho, I'll update you guys one my relaxer tomorrow and I just hope everyone has a nice valentines day.


Peace
Marissa

PS. sorry for the short blogs lately xD

I love my brother

Lol, this is gonna just be a short blog. Anywho, I was talking to my brother this morning and he had recently saw the Good Hair documentary (haven't seen it myself.). We were talking about hair and it was just so exciting to me that he'd actually listen and care about what I was saying. He seemed like he really learned a lot form Good Hair and was willing to learn more. I don't know, it just made me happy that he was interested that something I myself am interested in especially because hair care is just one of those girl things, y'know?

He also told me that if his wife tried to relax his kid's hair while they were still a child he'd DIVORCE HER! Lmfao. That made me laugh a lot, and I totally respect him for that. I don't really like it when young children get relaxers because they don't get a chance to learn to love their natural hair. Hell, I got a relaxer as a young child so I still struggle with the concept of natural beauty myself.

Anyway, that was just a day brightener. I've also taken out my braids last night. It took me 9 freaking hours of agony, excuse my french. I put some V05 passion fruit moisture milks, Mane 'n Tail, and olive oil on my hair to soften it to make detangling easier, put on a cap, tied up my satin scarf, then was off to bed. Detangling went well, I only had one nasty tangle and I have BUTTLOADS (Yes, I went there.) of new growth. Lol, it's crazy. My stylist is gonna be mad at me for not relaxing in so long, but I don't really care. I want to start self-relaxing after this relaxer. I'm gonna look up a lot of info on it, and possibly write an article on self-relaxing myself once I actually go through the process.

I've got a couple of make up blogs on the way, a haul and several reviews. So stay tuned, guys. Anywho, that's it for today so far.

Much love,
Marissa.